The Minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes will be elected, this Tuesday (14), president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), at 7 pm, by the Court’s collegiate. The session will also define STF Minister Ricardo Lewandowski as vice-president of the Electoral Court.
With this, the transition process begins tomorrow, led by the former attorney general of the Union during the Bolsonaro government, José Levi, until August 16, when Moraes and Lewandowski take office.
Despite being a formal event, the election takes place amid escalating tensions between the Judiciary and President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). In the most recent attack, the retired captain said, during his virtual participation in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), this Sunday (12), that the TSE did not accept the proposal of the Armed Forces of simultaneous counting of votes.
“The president of the previous Superior Electoral Court, who was Barroso, invited the Armed Forces. They presented suggestions. At the moment, they say that they fully or partially accepted the suggestions. [apuração simultânea]. They did not accept, or partially accepted, the simultaneous counting of votes,” Bolsonaro said.
Edson Fachin / Publicity/TSE and Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/ABr
Later, the current president of the TSE, Edson Fachin, said that the criticism was undue. “Who questions [a Justiça Eleitoral] demonstrates only political motivation or technical ignorance of the subject. I am now referring specifically to an interview with a high authority of the Republic in which he mentions that it is not possible to count votes at the same time. Criticism is inappropriate. With all due respect, there is an information error,” the minister said.
On Monday night (14), Bolsonaro accused Fachin of acting politically. “Is he the owner of the truth? Does he want me to believe him? He was the one who put Lula out of jail. [em que há] a candidate [por quem] he has more than sympathy and owes favors,” said the president.
Ciro criticizes Barroso for inviting the Armed Forces
The pre-candidate for the presidency for the PDT, Ciro Gomes, criticized the invitation made by the then president TSE, the minister of the STF Luís Roberto Barroso, to the Armed Forces to accompany this year’s electoral process.
Ciro Gomes is a pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic by the PDT / ©Carl de Souza / AFP
“I think he made one of the serious mistakes of that moment when he invited the Army to enter the electoral process. What is this? This has nothing to do with the Armed Forces, it’s a Banana Republic thing,” Gomes said in an interview. to the podcast The subjectdo G1.
Moraes extends investigation against Bolsonaro
In this climate, Minister Alexandre de Moraes extended, at the request of the Federal Police (PF), for another 60 days the investigation that investigates Bolsonaro for spreading false news about immunization against covid-19. At one point in the pandemic, the president even associated the vaccine with the risk of developing AIDS.
At the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, Bolsonaro speaks to the press and a car with sayings against him appears in the background / Reproduction
“Considering the need to continue the investigations, under the terms requested by the Federal Police and provided for in article 230-C, § 1, of the Internal Regulations of the SUPREME FEDERAL TRIBUNAL, I extend the present investigation for another 60 (sixty) days”, wrote the minister.
The investigation, which had already been extended in April, was opened on December 3 of last year.
between lies
Even after being denied by ex-president Michel Temer (MDB), Bolsonaro returned to talk about the alleged agreement made with Minister Alexandre de Moraes to assuage the coup spirits inflated by the president himself on September 7 of last year.
Bolsonaro said the agreement involved the closure of the fake news inquiry and a solution for Bolsonarista Zé Trovão in exchange for a note of retreat from the demonstrations. “I signed the letter. I decapitalized myself politically. I took a hell of a lot of beating in exchange for a greeting on the other end of the line, a simple thing, even about this investigation that had no place,” Bolsonaro told the press in front of the Planalto Palace.
Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro / Wilson Dias / Agência Brasil
“It involved [o inquérito das fake news] yea. A month or two and I was going to put an end to it. Unfortunately, nothing came from the other side. (…) We even talked about the [Zé] Thunder. We had the risk of Thunder coming back here [ele estava foragido, ser preso e o Brasil parar. Como vamos tratar o caso do Trovão. Foi discutido ali. ‘Eu vou tratar dessa maneira.’ E nada foi cumprido, nada, zero”, disse Bolsonaro.
Em nota divulgada na semana passada, Temer já havia negado qualquer tipo de acodo. “As conversas se desenvolveram em alto nível como cabia a uma pauta de defesa da democracia. Não houve condicionantes e nem deveria haver pois tratávamos ali de fazer um gesto conjunto de boa vontade e grandeza entre dois Poderes do Estado brasileiro”, disse.
Moro? Nem no Paraná
Uma ala do União Brasil protocolou um pedido no diretório estadual do Paraná para a desfiliação do ex-juiz Sergio Moro, nesta segunda-feira (13). Com isso, a sua candidatura a um cargo público pelo estado do Paraná pode ir por água abaixo.
Na semana passada, a Justiça Eleitoral determinou que o ex-ministro não poderá concorrer a cargos públicos nas eleições deste ano pelo estado de São Paulo, uma vez que sua transferência de domicílio eleitoral, feita em março deste ano, foi considerada irregular.
O ex-ministro da Justiça Sérgio Moro / Wilson Dias/Agência Brasil
O documento, assinado por Cristiane Mesquita, que integra a ala bolsonarista do partido, solicita a declaração de “inexistência de filiação do impugnado [Sergio Moro] to the União Brasil do Paraná and, with that, remove from now on its political pretensions in the state in view of the enormous damage it will cause to the other affiliates and to the name of the association before society”.
Lula with Kalil in Uberlândia
Former President Lula (PT) tested negative for covid-19 this Tuesday (14) and confirmed his trip to Uberlândia (MG) this Wednesday (15). He and his deputy, former governor Geraldo Alckmin (PSB), will participate in the launch of the pre-candidacy of the former mayor of Belo Horizonte Alexandre Kalil (PSD) for the Government of Minas Gerais, in alliance with the PT.
Lula / Ricardo Stuckert
“I was in doubt if I could go to Uberlândia because of Covid-19. Today I was informed by the doctor who took the exam and I was negative. Tomorrow I will be in Minas 100% free from Covid. But even if there is agglomeration I will use a mask to avoid abuse with a disease that we still haven’t been able to overcome”, said PT, in an interview with radio Vitoriosa FM, from Uberlândia, this Tuesday morning.
After Uberlândia, Lula will go on a tour of states in the Northeast, with agendas in Natal (Rio Grande do Norte), Maceió (Alagoas) and Aracaju (Sergipe).
released press
Judge Fabiana Alves Rodrigues, from the 10th Federal Criminal Court of São Paulo, concluded that the pre-candidate for the presidency Lula (PT) did not commit a crime by encouraging the militancy to pressure parliamentarians in favor of an eventual PT government.
“If we mapped the address of each deputy and there were 50 people in the house, it’s not to curse, it’s to talk to him, his wife, his son, to disturb his tranquility, it has much more effect than demonstrate in Brasília,” Lula said at the beginning of April at an event held by the CUT (Central Única dos Trabalhadores).
“When we are in the plenary [no Congresso], we don’t know if it’s raining outside, if it’s falling open pocketknife, hail, if they’re cursing us or the president. You only know the acts when you get home and turn on the television.”
The Federal Court understood that the declaration corresponds to the “exercise of citizenship” and determined the shelving of the investigation, opened after action by the Federal Public Ministry at the request of federal deputy Otoni de Paula (MDB-RJ), deputy leader of the government in the Chamber.
“There is no part of the speech that mentions the use of violence or illegal constraint on parliamentarians, but rather non-violent public acts at the homes of parliamentarians with the aim of ensuring that voters’ demands effectively reach the representatives,” said judge Fabiana. Alves Rodrigues.
The Attorney General’s Office also understood that there was no crime. “[O discurso] it was made in the context of a political opinion, directed by parliamentarians elected by the people, in a democratic state of law, which for that very reason are more exposed to demands and criticism in relation to the acts carried out in their mandate”, concluded the PGR.
Economists with Lula
A group of about a thousand economists, linked to the Brazilian Association of Economists for Democracy, published a manifesto in favor of Lula’s pre-candidacy, this Tuesday (14th).
Entitled “Movement of Economists for Democracy and Against Barbarism”, the document is signed, among others, by Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo, professor at Unicamp, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, former Minister of Finance, Otaviano Canuto, director of the Center for Macroeconomics and Development in Washington, and Ladislau Dowbor, postgraduate professor at PUC-SP.
“We economists, who subscribed to this manifesto, are clear that Brazil’s return to a path of civilizational progress necessarily involves the election of the Lula-Alckmin ticket in the first round of the general elections”, say the economists.
“It is also essential that we vote for governors, senators and federal and state deputies who firmly oppose the government of Jair Bolsonaro and are aligned with the permanent defense of democracy, the rule of law and the Federal Constitution of 1988.”
Doria leaves public life
The former governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), informed this Monday (13), that he leaves public life to return to activities in the private sector, on his social networks. “For my mistakes, I apologize. By my successes, I fulfilled my obligation”, he wrote in his profile on Twitter.
João Doria after announcing the withdrawal of his candidacy / Reproduction / Facebook
Doria will return to the Lide group, founded by him, which defines itself as “an organization that brings together executives from the most varied sectors of activity in search of strengthening the free initiative of economic and social development”. “For now”, the former governor stated that he will continue in the private sector. But that his decision is not “forever”, he said in an interview with UOL. The announcement comes three weeks after withdrawing from the pre-candidacy for the Presidency after internal pressure in the PSDB.
Doria announces that she leaves public life and returns to the private sector; remember his controversial “legacy”
Editing: Nicolau Soares
